Pm Press E Books imprint: 47 books
Libertarian Socialism
Politics in Black and Red
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. These essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveal some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too...
Women And The Subversion Of The Community
A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa. In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women's struggles and strikes across...
The Bonnot Gang
The Story of the French Illegalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever, and as bank expropriators the inventors of the motorised 'getaway'. It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into illegalism - the theory that theft is liberating in itself. And how...
Breaking The Spell
A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism. Chris Robe's...
Other Avenues Are Possible
Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Other Avenues are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People's Food System of the 1970s. Weaving new interviews, historical research and the author's personal story as a longstanding co-op member, the book captures the excitement of a growing radical...
Rad Families
A Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Rad Families: A Celebration honours the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we create families. This is not an anthology of experts, or how-to articles on perfect parenting; it often doesn't even try to provide answers. Instead, the writers strive to be honest and vulnerable...
The Explosion Of Deferred Dreams
Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
As the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, 'flower power', 'acid rock' and 'hippies'; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco...
by John King
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
John King, best-selling author of The Football Factory, chronicles the struggle between rich and poor in this strong defence of socialised medicine. Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital where she works as a nurse a microcosm of the community in which she was born and bred. While...
by John King
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Headhunters is the story of five friends. Carter USM is a live wire who lives on the edge; Mango can't stop thinking; Harry is a beer-lover and dreamer; Balti his drinking partner, out of work and hoping for a fresh start; while Will is the quiet romantic, a voice of reason as the lives of the others...
by Daniel Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In his foreword to an earlier collection of essays on libertarian communism, Daniel Guerin addressed himself to younger people 'alienated from ideologies and 'isms' shorn of any meaning by an earlier generation' and particularly from 'socialism, which has so often been betrayed by those who claimed...
Battle For The Mountain Of The Kurds
Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Rojava
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the 'Mountain of the Kurds' (Kurd Dagh) had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war. After the outbreak...
A Declaration Of The Rights Of Human Beings
On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
'A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.' So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights...
The Future Generation
The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
China Martens started her pioneering mamazine The Future Generation in 1990. She was a young anarchist punk rock mother who didn't feel that the mamas in her community had enough support, so she began publishing articles on radical parenting in an age before the internet. The anthology of her zine,...
by Matt Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Modern-day movements to end racism in the U.S. seem sadly doomed to fail. If more fundamental approaches to social change and more sober analysis of U.S. history are not considered, our efforts will lead to continued fragmentation - or worse. The essays in this book - written by lifelong anti-imperialist...